Made answer the great King Etzel: “When think ye forth to fare
To the wooing of the winsome? God take you into his care,
And crown with honour mine envoys unto her, my wife that shall be,
Let fortune but aid us, and Kriemhild incline to us graciously.”
And Rüdiger made answer: “Ere we ride from thy land away,
We must needs provide us with armour and royal-rich array,
To stand in the presence of princes with honour worthy of thee.
I think to lead into Rhineland five hundred knights with me;
So when in the realm Burgundian men look on me and mine,
With one voice all the people shall cry in the land of Rhine: